Tag: bioterror
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feds ‘lost track’ of hundreds of viruses & microbes
from honolulu advertiser: The state Department of Agriculture lost track of hundreds of viruses and microbes imported to Hawai’i for research purposes over a five-decade period because of a breakdown in the agency’s paperwork system. The bulk of the import applications were filed by University of Hawai’i researchers who failed to report on the inventory…
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california bioterror drill at mock concert
from san jose mercury news: How would you like to spend the day inside a crowded stadium, pretending to vomit and be drenched in fake chemical gas? Sound like fun? Wait, there’s more. Well, you won’t get paid. But you will be helping out local firefighters, police officers and paramedics practice for the biggest and…
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mass vaccination drill exceeds expectations
from arizona republic: Chandler Regional Medical Center’s flu shot drill Saturday was a hit with residents and considered a success by officials testing the hospital’s ability to respond to a bioterror or other mass medical emergency. Cars began lining up for the free drive-though vaccinations as early as 6 a.m. even though the start time…
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flu lab set to open for 1918 pandemic virus reconstruction
from citizens for legitimate government: Ebola research may resume, pending outcome of appeal… UW-Madison ‘s $12.5 million Institute for Influenza Viral Research, nearing completion at University Research Park, will have a collection of safety and security features the university hasn’t seen before. Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka plans to study several kinds of flu viruses in the…
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flashback: cia tested bioweapons on nyc in 1956
from washington post (dec4,1979): The Central Intelligence Agency may have been involved in “open air” biological warfare tests in streets and tunnels in the New York City area in 1955 and 1956, according to an analysis of CIA records released yesterday by the Church of Scientology. The four-month analysis suggests that The CIA purchased supplies…
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1,000 free flu shots to be given in 3 hours for drill
from arizona republic: Chandler health officials are asking residents to roll down their car windows and roll up their sleeves for an emergency terrorism drill that will test the efficiency of mass drive-through vaccinations. The first drill of it’s kind at Chandler Regional Medical Center will involve 100 hospital personnel administering flu vaccines to adults…
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feds urged to get rid of possible ‘dirty’ bomb tools
from houston chronicle: The U.S. government should replace more than 1,000 irradiation machines used in hospitals and research facilities because terrorists could use the radioactive materials inside to make a “dirty” bomb, a government advisory panel has concluded. “Any one of these 1,000-plus sources could shut down 25 square kilometers, anywhere in the United States,…
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news on the march
american labs mishandle deadly germsfrom ap: American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs & toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. american lockdown: law enforcementout of control & beyond the palefrom carolyn…
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unknowing residents to take part in terror drill
city testing way to quickly distribute antibiotics from wcvb: About 23,000 Boston residents are weeks away from taking part in a bioterror drill, and many probably don’t even know it. Health officials plan to have mail carriers deliver tiny white cardboard boxes to the doorsteps and mailboxes of thousands of residents in the city’s West…
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UK Tested Poison Gas On Indian Soldiers
from ap/my way: British military scientists tested mustard gas on hundreds of Indian soldiers during more than a decade of experiments that began before World War II, a British newspaper reported Saturday. The experiments to determine whether mustard gas damaged Indians’ skin more than British soldiers’ began in the early 1930s and lasted more than…
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army admits dumping chemical weapons at sea
from deep sea news: It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign…
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chemical bomb test in pennsylvania
from herald-mail: By the time medical personnel reached the “victims” at a mock terrorism exercise Sunday, most of them had abandoned coughing and unconsciousness to go in search of a bathroom. Made aware that they were needed, the female victims jogged back to the J.C. Penney wing of the Chambersburg Mall and collapsed to the…
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conspiracy theory or marketing for nine inch nails?
from mtv: A dystopian civilization in the throes of extinction. A government poisoning its own citizens through the drinking water. Military police raiding private residences. The end of civil liberties. The creation of a Church-State. Mind control. The contents of some conspiracy theorist’s personal manifesto? The plot of a rote first-person shooter? The results of…
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US unwittingly evolved superpathogen
from raw story: A drug-resistant bacteria that is infecting wounded US soldiers in Iraq – and has spread to civilian hospitals in parts of Europe – accidentally evolved in US military hospitals in Iraq, Wired Magazine will report in a massive expose on Monday, RAW STORY has learned. The full story is now available here.…
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bush ‘developing illegal bioterror weapons’ for offensive use
from truthout: In violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb. So says Francis Boyle, the professor of international law who…